Northrop Grumman will start producing two Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar missile-warning satellites for the Space Systems Command after clearing a preliminary design review. The company received a $47 million contract in 2018 for designing the polar satellites, called Eagle-3, and was awarded a $2.37 billion contract in 2020 to begin the development of […]
The National Geospational-Intelligence Agency will demonstrate how the Joint Regional Edge Node can turn satellite imagery into usable data that would be disseminated in hard-to-reach locations. The NGA is developing four JRENs that will be installed in multiple locations around the world. Under the JREN concept, nodes will be placed closer to users, allowing them […]
FAST Labs, the research and development organization of BAE Systems, has received a $7 million contract to work on Oversight, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s autonomous space-based target tracking program. DARPA aims to procure a cross-constellation system that maintains continuous custody over a large number of objects. Surveillance technology developed under Oversight will be […]
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $919 million task order to support the U.S. military using technology-based solutions. Under the Engineering, Development, Integration, and Technology-based Solutions task order, Booz Allen will offer technologies that would allow Army program executive offices, U.S. Special Operations Command, the Army Development Command Soldier Center and the Department of Defense […]
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has selected L3Harris Technologies to provide technology and perform modeling and simulation studies aimed at enabling future autonomous systems to characterize and predict human mobility. IARPA awarded L3Harris a contract to support the Hidden Activity Signal and Trajectory Anomaly Characterization program’s first phase. As part of the modeling and […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will use data from at least two Umbra synthetic aperture radar satellites to enable the development of innovative processing algorithms for advancing U.S. radar capabilities. Umbra has six satellites in orbit equipped with SAR payloads capable of capturing high-resolution radar images during day and night and through dense cloud […]
Composable infrastructure provider Liqid has delivered two composable supercomputers to the Department of Defense. The supercomputers are powered by NVIDIA A100 graphics processing units and Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 central processing units. Both GPUs and CPUs are designed to deliver enhanced capabilities for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence processing, networking and data analytics. The supercomputers will […]
BAE Systems received a three-year, $72.5 million research and development contract with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center to advance precision-guided munitions and identify the long-range precision fires solution that will best support the U.S. Army. The contract follows a $16 million contract awarded in 2021 to improve PGMs and demonstrate their […]
Mike Madsen, the Defense Innovation Unit’s acting director, recently spoke to DefenseScoop about his organization’s mission and the changes that have occurred during his time in it. He said he is spending his final days working with Doug Beck, the newly appointed director, to “take DIU to the next level.” Madsen said Beck, a former […]
Department of Defense Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity David McKeown, a 2023 Wash100 Awardee, acknowledged on Thursday at the Government Executive 2023 Cyber Summit the vital role played by the department’s good relationship with the private sector and said the partnership is a key enabler in the full implementation of the Zero Trust Strategy […]
